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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2025, 12:56 AM EDT for Bell County, Harlan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 2025, 12:56 AM EDT (04:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2025, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bell County, KY, Harlan County, KY
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 292 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1611 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1431 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 16, 8:55 PM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 8:55 PM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
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Special weather statement, Jul 16, 9:13 PM EDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 16, 9:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bell | 47 min |
| Jul 16, 10:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Fleming | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 12:26 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Harlan | 8 hr |
| Jul 17, 2:57 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Knox | 84 min |
| Jul 17, 3:35 AM EDT | Flood Watch | JKL | Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 26 more | 45 hr |
| Jul 17, 12:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt | 30 min |
| Jul 17, 2:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Rowan | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Rowan | 32 min |
| Jul 17, 3:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Fleming | 26 min |
| Jul 17, 3:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Rowan | 26 min |
| Jul 17, 3:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Fleming, Rowan | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 3:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Fleming, Rowan | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Rowan | 28 min |
| Jul 17, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 37 min |
| Jul 17, 4:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Rowan | 118 min |
| Jul 17, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Elliott | 32 min |
| Jul 17, 4:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Elliott | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 4:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Elliott, Rowan | 119 min |
| Jul 17, 5:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Morgan, Powell, Wolfe | 28 min |
| Jul 17, 5:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Johnson, Magoffin, Martin, Wolfe | 34 min |
| Jul 17, 6:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Estill, Powell | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pike | 38 min |
| Jul 17, 6:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Montgomery | 41 min |
| Jul 17, 7:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Lee, Powell, Wolfe | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 7:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pike | 44 min |
| Jul 17, 7:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Knox, Whitley | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 7:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Knox | 47 min |
| Jul 17, 7:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Knox, Whitley | 5 hr |
| Jul 17, 7:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | McCreary, Wayne | 7 hr |
| Jul 17, 7:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Whitley | 5 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.